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WPM´s action at Atlanta

Submitted by wpm2011 on Thu, 07/24/2014 - 10:58

Dear friends,

As I had informed you before, we successfully had WPM poetry reading session yesterday July 21st. I had invited fifty people, and all chairs were taken. In the beginning I had a speech about World Poetry Movement in Farsi, and" Deven Stewart" who is a professor of Emory university in Atlanta translated my words into English.

Twelve people read poetry. Most of them were Iranian immigrants, and the rest, were American and Spanish. The good thing was that one of the ladies who is poetry lover from Colombia,Bogota, read four of your short poems , and my husband "Cyrus" who is an actor, stage director and writer, recited and performed your poems in English.

The poems were "Fishing", "Belief ", "Drought" and "The War" which were all loved by the audience. At the end of the event, we did chorus reading of a poem by "Ahmad Shmloo" as a prayer. Our session started at 5 and ended at 8pm.